Objective

Objective may refer to:

  • Objectivity (philosophy) (contrasted with subjectivity)
  • Objective (goal)
  • Objective pronoun, a pronoun as the target of a verb
  • Objective (optics), an element in a camera or microscope
  • Objective Productions, a British television production company

Famous quotes containing the word objective:

    “So much for Mrs. Hollis’ nine months of pain and 20 years of hope.”
    —Alvah Bessie, Ranald MacDougall, and Lester Cole. Raoul Walsh. Nameless GI, Objective Burma, cutting dog tags off a dead GI (1945)

    “In what does the objective measure of value lie? In the quantum of enhanced and organized power alone, in accordance with what occurs in all occurrence, a will to increase.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason, it is playing God, and should be spanked and stood in the corner.”
    —Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929)